Terrorist Fist Bump Emoticon

Updated on Nov 20:
==@@==
or
==3E==
Are officially sanctioned emoticons.  Sanctioned by me.  :<p
–Original post–

As far as I know, invented this.  You read it hear first.
I proudly pronounce the 100% American terrorist fist bump.
–8 8–
Tips welcome.
UPDATED:
How about this:
–3 E–
See its two different fists.  And, it avoids the messiness of the ** thing.
Or,
–@ @–
That is Ok.  Looks like 2 [...]

Amusing Caricature of Pop Social Scientists

This was emailed to me three years ago, and is very amusing.  Allan Friedman wrote posted it, but the link is dead, so I am posting here so it does not die.

http://allan.friedmans.org/mt/ (now dead link)

How pop social scientists order at a restaurant August 23, 2005

Not new, but an utterly brilliant piece from kottke.org needs to [...]

Insight into professors

Hilarious PhD comic!

Business Optimists Rediscover Society!

A somewhat structured web surf about organizational change lead me to this site about the book/project called:
Megacommunities.
Which includes this amusing graphic.

I think that web od dense relations in the middle also has an older name: society.

Is this for real?

A direct mail marketing message came to me today ahead of the Academy of Management meetings.
Is this for real?

Do you have questions about life?
Stop by the McGraw-Hill/Irwin booth Sunday, Aug.9 and Tuesday, Aug. 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and get lifes questions answered by our psychics!

Amusing Diaper Story

One of the folks over at BPP has this amusing story about trying to use eco diapers and findng that “reality overhwlems the good inetentiosn of the crusade.”
Could sum up my challenges in writing too.  What to do when the reality is you?

Pithy approach to political economy

A colleague sent this along.  I know it floated around Internet for awhile.
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbor.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots [...]

Chuck Norris and Google

hat tip to orgtheory
1. Go to Google.
2. Type “find chuck norris” into the search box.
3. Hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button.

ikea as a malevolent force for Scandinavian hate-mongering?

The good folks at orgtheory.net cite some research showing that Ikea’s naming of products is not as random as meets the eye of the non-Scandinavian.
nonrandomness that i can’t explain « orgtheory.net
I swore off Ikea after we reached a certain income threshold.  I’d been burned by too many of those lock down bolts-on-the-end-of-screws.

Messin’ with my head: Our solar system isnt what it used to be

Not only did they diss cute, rakishly-tilted Pluto, no the astronomers are really messin’ with my head.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 03/04/2008 | Our solar system isnt what it used to be
Under the new definition, the International Astronomical Union has officially recognized 11 planets: eight traditional ones plus three “dwarf planets. The dwarfs are Pluto; Ceres, [...]